3D in geographic information systems

We - The Flexatel team - are actively developing its expertise in one of today’s most promising technologies—the use of 3D in geographic information systems. There’s an increasing demand for three-dimensional imaging in fields such as urban planning, engineering, and mining, where this technology enables users to identify and analyze features that are not visible on standard 2D maps.
In 2020, we completed a pilot project for a city in Sweden with mines and related facilities in its immediate vicinity. City authorities and mining company management were considering relocating a part of the city away from production facilities and were using the geographic information system as basis for their calculations.
The Flexatel team explored one of the options and designed a pilot project, creating a BIM model based on Opensource technologies using 3D tiles and LODs and written in Cesium and Python. The result was an efficient geographic information system with highly detailed 3D objects, which allows users to examine not only buildings, but also individual floor plans.